This Week in "Windows 8.1 Book": February 16, 2014

With this week's updates to "Windows 8.1 Book," we're getting very close to the finish line: The book is now over 500 pages long, and is only missing a single short chapter and some front matter. The finish line awaits.

Here is the first draft of the Devices chapter. This fills in most of the remaining content though I've temporarily removed two sections about scanning (I need a better scanner for this) and the Microsoft Arc Mouse Surface Edition utility which curiously stopped working after I wrote about it and before I took screenshots (on multiple PCs, no less).

Here's a bit of a step sideways: In working on the DEVICES chapter today, I realized that I had already written about Play To and Play On Xbox (360) for the VIDEO chapter. So I went back and looked at that chapter and realized it was written before the release of the Xbox One.

Here is a very early look at the newly-added DEVICES chapter for "Windows 8.1 Book." This chapter will cover external hardware devices such as keyboards, mice, removable storage (USB/SD), network-based storage, printers, scanners, displays (including technologies like Miracast) and cameras.